Baba Tonka Cove (Bulgarian: залив Баба Тонка, romanized: zaliv Baba Tonka, IPA: [ˈzaliv ˈbabɐ ˈtɔŋkɐ]) is the 1.1 km wide cove indenting for 750 m the north coast of Byers Peninsula between Villard Point and Varadero Point on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
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The cove is named after the Bulgarian revolutionary and national hero Tonka Obretenova (1812–1893), known as Baba Tonka ("Grandma Tonka").
Location
editBaba Tonka Cove is located at 62°36′45″S 61°04′13″W / 62.61250°S 61.07028°W. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2009.
Map
edit- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
edit- Baba Tonka Cove. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
edit- Baba Tonka Cove. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.